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General gardening Seasons

Best In Season

This page is for the best articles by Season, followed with Plants by Type on Ilona’s Garden Journal

 

Spring

The Season Begins

Fickle Spring, Ephemeral Beauty

Wildflowers

Dirty Talk

Cold Damage

Thoughts On A Spring Garden

Containers That Caught My Eye

Considering Birds

Making More Plants

Spring Beauty Is Useful

Burgeoning Spring (crabapples and viburnum)

When Should I Start My Garden?

Signs of Spring

 

Summer

When the Garden Becomes an Ogre

Mulch For Moisture

The Garden In July

August Gardening: Ten Suggestions

The Scented Garden

Life As A Bowl of Cherries

Marathon Gardening: Garden Renovation

Garden Disappointment

Mad Dogs and Midwesterners

Autumn

Fall Color

Autumn and Orchards (apples)

Autumn chores- and more!

Apple Cider Time

Autumn Abundance Recipes

Savoring The Autumn

Cold Exaction

Garden Thoughts

Rest and Reaping

A Few Thoughts on Daffodils

Winter

Ten Winter Features

The Cold Zone, Zone Maps

The coming of winter

Predicting Weather

I was going to garden

Getting Seeds Started

Seed-starting, January Thoughts

Gardening,Global Warming,and El Nino

Garden Transitions

Late Winter Siftings

Old Garden Writers

Holiday Plants (notes)

A Winter’s Poem

Gardener’s Wishlist

Christmas Fragrance

January- Month of Two Faces


Plants by type

Annuals

Shirley Poppies

Four O’ Clocks

Flowering Kale

Five Top Hosta Choices

Bulbs

Tulip Trials (short post)

 

 

Perennials

My Top Ten Perennial Choices

Hellebore Niger

More on Hellebores

Pelargoniums

Lavender Plants from Cuttings

Siberian Iris

Shrubs

Beauty Bush, Kolkwitzia amabilis

Lonicera Fragrantissima

Roses

Pruning Your Mugo Pine

Purple Sand Cherry

Pyracantha

 

Trees

Crab Apple Trees

 

Plant Propagation

Propagation of Softwood Cuttings

Making More Plants

More Lavender Plants


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I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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Do You Grow Herbs? 10 Reasons To Love Them

There are so many ways to enjoy herb plants, that they are not for herb gardens only. Think about tucking them into the landscape, into containers or into your home. I do I enjoy thee? Oh, Herb, Let me count the ways! 10 Ways I Enjoy Herbs (and you can, too!) In companion plantings, herbs […]

10 Cool Season Annual Flowers To Plant

Shirley poppies and Bachelor Buttons Not every garden writer alerts you to the fact that annuals can have seasons that are shorter than other choices. For places like Ohio which have hot summers, there are common annuals that only do well when our weather is cooler, such as in early summer. Those flowers sort of […]

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